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"Yes," smiled Mr. Carrington, "I have picked up a little about the household. My friends of last night were exceedingly communicative very gossipy indeed. I rather gather that omniscience is Mr. Bisset's foible, and that he is not averse from conversation."
Bisset's mail was almost hacked to pieces; the Templar's vestments were torn to rags, his cuirass pierced, and his eye and face wounded and bleeding. 'You bring tidings of woe? said the Count of Soissons. 'Woe, in truth, answered Bisset; for the grand master could not even muster voice to speak; 'of all who rode into Mansourah this morning, not a man, save ourselves, lives to tell the tale.
THE Templar and the English knight after a variety of adventures reached Acre, having on their way fallen in with Father Yves, whom King Louis had sent on a mission to 'the Old Man of the Mountains' that remarkable personage to whose behests kings bowed, and at whose name princes trembled and a knight of the noble House of Coucy, who had come from Constantinople, and whose accounts of the state of the Latin empire of the East much increased Bisset's desire to go and offer his sword to the Emperor Baldwin de Courtenay, then struggling desperately to maintain his throne against Greeks and Turks.
This volume reprints for the first time in the present century the text of the 'Spectator' as its authors left it. Chalmers's text, of 1817, was hardly better, and about two-thirds of the whole number of corruptions had already appeared in Bisset's edition of 1793, from which they were transferred. Thus Bisset as well as Chalmers in the Dedication to Vol.
WALTER Espec, albeit since leaving England he had enacted the part of squire to two of the foremost earls in Christendom, was too much in need of a protector not to accept Bisset's offer with gratitude; and the English knight exercised his influence with such effect that both of them were soon provided with horses and raiment befitting their rank, and made a creditable figure among the Crusaders who thronged Acre.
"I've heard, sir, one or two stories which I was hoping might have something in them." "I've heard about half a dozen and gone into them all, and there's nothing in one of them." "Half a dozen stories?" Bisset's eye began to look hopeful again. "Well, sir, perhaps if I was to go into some of them again in the light of my fresh datas, they might wear, as it were, a different aspect."
"Lady Cromarty must be told! She could put a stop to it " Something in Bisset's look pulled him up sharply. "I'm afraid her ladyship believes it herself, sir. Maybe you have heard she has keepit Miss Farmond to stay on with her." "I have." "Well, sir," said Bisset very slowly and deliberately, "I'm thinking it's just to watch her." Ned Cromarty had been smoking a pipe.
Resistance was vain, but the Saracens turned to bay, and a bloody fray, in which Bisset's axe did terrible execution, was the consequence. Only one attempted to escape, he who had before him on his saddle the almost lifeless form of Adeline de Brienne; and after him Walter Espec, his sword drawn and his spur in his horse's flank, rode with furious shouts.
Naturally he would leave mud, and quite likely he swept it up himself then, though the only evidence of sweeping is Bisset's statement about the brush. And what proof is that of anything? Does your hearth brush always stay in the same position?" "Never noticed," said Ned. "And I don't believe anybody notices sufficiently closely to make their evidence on such a point worth a rap!" said Simon.
Bisset's passion for expounding the principles of their professions sometimes exceeding his tact. He might have been in the thirties or he might have been in the fifties. "With regard to these ladies' bicycles, miss " he began with a lecturer's air. But by this time Cicely was also an expert in side-tracking her friend's theoretical essays. "Oh, how clever of you!" she exclaimed rapturously.
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